He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

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.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.