No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.