One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.