Truth is what most contradicts itself.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

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 is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.