One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage