1. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
2. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
3. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
4. Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
5. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
6. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
7. All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
8. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
9. The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
10. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that
they can't see the problem.
