Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.