Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

All extremes are dangerous.

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together