Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.