I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

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

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

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

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.