At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.