But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

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

... 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.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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