You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!

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

This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

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.