Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.