"Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party."

"Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered a…"

"Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So did Jack, he told me. You think you can go on all your lif…"

"Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not."

"You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women."

"Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion."

"Und wenn ich nicht erwischt werde, wird mich der, dem ich die Geschichte geb, nie verraten; der wohnt schon, solange …"

"Wir müssen mehr Menschen lieben als bloß einander. Die alte Vorstellung von Liebe gleitet dem Weltmenschen von heute …"

""Wer ist denn glücklich? Die Reichen?"

""Als ob irgend jemand jemals sagt, was er denkt. Es ist immer das, was jemand anders denkt"