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

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.

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.

The best journey of life that you can take is inside yourself to discover your new thoughts, new ideas, and new hopes.

You will never turn from a sin you don’t hate.

I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?

He is not always at ease who laughs.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.