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.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

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

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

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.