A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.