The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.