Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.