So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malig….

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Gre….

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

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

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized t….

none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw….

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophanti….

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to….

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation..

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity..

there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief..

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

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 le….

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter int….

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him..

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 ….

Love can bear anything better than ridicule..

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

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

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe..