A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.