Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.