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

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

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!

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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.