"I like to write. I like to read. I like to think."

"I have always been fond of children. I have always been fond of animals. I have always been fond of nature."

"Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed."

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opene…"

"One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows."