Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.