But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.