One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.