My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.