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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Great mentors give great advice.

The difference between an Employer and an Employee is that as payday approaches, the Employee is full of hope and expectation while the Employer is full of fear and trepidation

Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.