The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

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

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.