Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.