It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.