There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.