An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species …

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticise…

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better i…

I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.