None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.