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

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.