The historian records, but the novelist creates.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.