I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

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 never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.