I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.