Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.