Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

the only revenge worth having is success.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.