Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.