The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

In England, nobody's your friend.

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

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

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