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

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.