At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill ….

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse..

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you..

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves..

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not o….

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it..

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan..

The War will leave none of us as it found us..