I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

It was good and nothing good is ever lost.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.