Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.