Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
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.
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.
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
... 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.
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
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?