It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.