The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.