Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.