I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.