Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.