What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

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.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.

But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.