It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.