They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.