The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.