O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

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

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

...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.

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.

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.