My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Life is a crisis - so what!