As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records.

People should follow their own energy.