Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.