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.

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.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

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

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

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.