We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.