Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.