He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Writing a novel is agony.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.