I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.