Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.