Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.