It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

The so called white races are really pinko-grey.