There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.