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

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

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

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.