Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.

It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. …

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can …