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

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

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

Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.