I had little talent for happiness.

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?