If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.