My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.