The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

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

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!