Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.