Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.