No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.