Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?