“To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.”

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”

“The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.”

“My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.”

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”

“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!”

“She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said. Alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it- it went on increasing in his experience.”