“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.”

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.”

“He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.”

“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.”

“He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”