No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.