She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

We are always the same age inside.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.