I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

Plain lies are dangerous.