Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

An artist must be a reactionary

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.