Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.