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.

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.

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

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

The printed page was like wine to me.

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

Stay consistent with your message and who you are.