The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."