We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

No art should be fashionable.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.