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

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

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

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

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

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