There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.