The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

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

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.

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