A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

Western man is schizophrenic.

I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

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.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.