We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

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.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.