The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be