The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
