as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.