“Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

“It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!”

“If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...”

“They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.”

“Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.”