Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.