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

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.