Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.