There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

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

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.