In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

...in those days children were rather out of fashion.

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

What you need, is an Event, to remember for a lifetime.

Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.

When you have crush you become nothing but a poet

Travel makes existentialists of us all.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.