Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

The best writing is when one writes from the soul

I love you. We’re getting married, and that’s the way it is. Get used to it.

The course of nature is the art of God.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.