Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.