“A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.”
“He who has seen the misery of man only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of woman; he who has seen the misery of woman only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of childhood.”
“You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.”
“He is also a keen cook, gardener and birder. He has no middle fingers on one hand, so he can't swear but is permanently doing the heavy metal sign.”
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”