I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No