You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

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

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

We are American at puberty. We die French.