The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers all alone in their studios with no one watching.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

I was a queen and you took away my crown a wife and you killed my husband a mother and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it but do not make me suffer long.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.