I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.