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

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.