Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Intelligence forbids tears.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.