First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.