It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

The world's fat is badly divided.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.