There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.