'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.