The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.