It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.