What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.