oh how television diminishes everything.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.