The belly comes before the soul.

Writing a novel is agony.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

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