Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

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

Sheep with a nasty side.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.