Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

There is nothing like race, is there?

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.