Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 13, 1894 Death: August 14, 1984
I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accu….
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that ….
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats..
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, a….
To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ..
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison..
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous ev….
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours..
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness..
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate..
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skil….
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a ….
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other..
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morn….
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear..
To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace..
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is ….
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going..
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile..
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with….
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy ch….