I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

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.