It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.