A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

You have immense strength for every good work.

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

We have too many mosques in America.

I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.