Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.