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

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

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

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.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.