You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.