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

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Sheep with a nasty side.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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

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.