I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

If you want a job making toys, move to China.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.