I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.