I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

The end of culture is right living