The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.