If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

No great thing happens suddenly.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.