What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

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

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

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

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.