A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life