Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

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.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.