War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.