It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.