I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.

No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!