... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

That complete statement which is literature.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.