Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

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.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.