If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

Beware the ire of the calm.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .