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

I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

Colours are what drive me most strongly.