The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.