Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.