We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.