Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

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!

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.