As there was never any question there was never any answer.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.