An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.