Each man kills the thing he loves.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

I was cured all right.