My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.