The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.