Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.