it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.