The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.