I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.