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

A death is the most terrible of facts.

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

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.