If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.