Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.