And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.