People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

If you can read this you can read me.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.