Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

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.

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

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.