He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.