Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.