An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.