Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.