At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.