There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

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

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?