being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.