All fates are ‘worse than death’.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

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.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!