A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.