The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.