One always finds time for what one likes.

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.

The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.

Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.

Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

No sky is heavy if the heart be light