How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.