Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

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.'

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.