The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.