The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to..

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like livi….

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of ….

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing..

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper..

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them..

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself..

If you love people, you take them on trust..

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious..

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring..

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea..

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you..

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people..

Death is too much to ask of the living..

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are on….

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression..

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer..

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life..

It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Lond….

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love..