"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does."

"The opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity…"

"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."

"I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."