Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.