The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

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

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