Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.