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.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

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

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.