There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.