Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.