memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.