I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.