As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.