Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

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.'

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

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.