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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

"Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself."

'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

"We got a course in picknicking at the university," said Dr. Bourbon. "It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking."

'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'

"Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe."