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

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

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

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.