I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.