Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.