If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.