Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.