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

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.

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.

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

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

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

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