[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.
Convention is another name for the habits of society.
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?
Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.