There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

We are always the same age inside.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

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