Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.