Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.