If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.