To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

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

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

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.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.