The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.
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