Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.