Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability