Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.