Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.