There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.