Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

We wait always for something that does not come.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.