I think most people are more important than their opinions.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.