You are who you are when nobody's watching.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.