Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

Write drunk; edit sober.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.