Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.