It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

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

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.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.