"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."