Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.