"God is only a great imaginative experience."

"D.H. Lawrence, De Maupassant, Chekhov, and Hemingway were also a great influence on me when I first began to write sh…"

"Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only th…"

"Lawrence was a powerful early influence on me, Forster a more enduring one."

"The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer."

"I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter."

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ru…"

"If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, an…"

"My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily."

"Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery."