Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

My mind is not suited to go much into company.