"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play: it is war minus the shooting."

"I would give odds against the survival of civilization within the next few hundred years."

"The worst racket seems to be in second-hand goods."

"The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual."

"I say that such a belief has no reality."

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."

"Popularising poetry... is a question of getting people to listen instead of uttering a mechanical raspberry."

"Good novels are written by people who are not frightened."

"The dead must always be flattered unless they happen to be artists."

"Handwriting which is both pleasant to look at and easy to read is now a very rare thing."

"All revolutions are failures, but they are not all the same failure."