Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations. - Margaret Drabble

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.