Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.