"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise."

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

"Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven."

"Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"I am the only truth I know."

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."