I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.