He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.