Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.