To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.