Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!