"Text of "Poems and letters" with an English translation by W. B. Anderson"

"I can manage very well with the first grubby backside which comes along – provided I find a skin which takes the light well."

"It was true of my generation, that the movies were terribly vivid and instructive. There were all kinds of things you learned. Like the 19th century novels, you saw how other social classes lived — es…"

"Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle."

"I don't think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him later on, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I don't …"