The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.