Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.