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.

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

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

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.