That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.