English "novelist, critic, man of letters".
"His fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combined wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre."
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
""He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.""
"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
