“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

“The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind mesince the hideous summer of 78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over ...”

“If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and s...”

“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho I was not conscious of the necessity until 67 or 68 when I broke down first, acutely, and had violent turns of hysteria. As I lay pros...”

“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.”

“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

“I have a romantic side.”

“Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”