An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.