It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.