"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."