it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

People have never lost what they think they have.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.