Writing a novel is agony.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.