It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.