I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."