Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.