To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but …