And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

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

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.

I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

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.