A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

My father was all brain and little heart.