The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

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.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.