For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

To lose is not always failure.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.