That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the….

Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain dep….

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain..

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sal….

Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books..

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior..

It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to….

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itsel….

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing..

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write..

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowle….

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive..

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade..

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race..

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there..

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose..

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable..

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes..

Nothing great ever came out of common sense..

It is not possible to love and be wise..