Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

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.

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

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

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.