If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed..

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture..

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world..

I was always on my oddy knocky..

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination..

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain..

Hitler was a teetotalitarian..

What's it going to be then, eh?.

I was cured all right..

But what I do I do because I like to do..

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I….

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the dif….

It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healt….

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist..

Each man kills the thing he loves..

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is..

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate..

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Sc….

The writer's life seethes within but not without..

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it..

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into wh….