Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

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

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

To understand all is to forgive all.

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

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.