We cannot get grace from gadgets.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

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

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

Western man is schizophrenic.

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