Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.