“A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.”

“He has one of the worst personalities. Actually, you can’t call it a personality, since he acts more like an animal than a person.”

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”

“There is no sight more appealing on this planet than a person actually preparing food for the ones they love.”

“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured.”

“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.”