A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.