It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.