As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.