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

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.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

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. …