If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

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

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

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