The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

It does the heart good to look at you.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.