There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.