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.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

Live it up so you can write it down.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.