War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

Funny peculiar, or funny ha-ha?

What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.