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

Rich people are poor people with money.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.