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

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.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.