Writing Is Not Primarily Escape, But Use.

We Must Know, As Much As Possible, In Our Beautiful Art...what We Are Talking About And The Only Way To Know Is To Have Lived And Loved And Cursed And Floundered And Enjoyed And Suffered. I Think I Don't Regret A Single "excess" Of My Responsive Youth I Only Regret, In My Chilled Age, Certain Occasions And Possibilities I Didn't Embrace.

You Must Save What You Can Of Your Life; You Musn't Lose It All Simply Because You've Lost A Part.

London Is On The Whole The Most Possible Form Of Life.

I Recall My Fleeting Instants In Savannah As The Taste Of A Cup Charged To The Brim.

Young Men Of This Class Never Do Anything For Themselves That They Can Get Other People To Do For Them, And It Is The Infatuation, The Devotion, The Superstition Of Others That Keeps Them Going. These Others In Ninety-nine Cases Out Of A Hundred Are Women.