You can't put off being young until you retire.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.