Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

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.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown