Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

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

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.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.