A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

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

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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

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.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.