Good writing is like a windowpane.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.