for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.