Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.