We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.