A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected..

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing..

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and ….

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does..

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea..

Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good,….

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth..

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia..

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us..

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race..

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all..

Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghost….

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown..

Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves….

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individual….

I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail….

Only lies and evil come from letting people off..

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face….

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect..

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central..

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time..