There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

Well, can you tell her that?"He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.