Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.