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.

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.