I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.