People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

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

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.