He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

An artist must be a reactionary

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.