Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.