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

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.