There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.