“...it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.”

“I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.”

“Do you like dogs?''No.''I thought the British were great dog-lovers.''We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.”

“I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover, but I was a poor man. He had in his hand the infinite riches of respectability”

“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me.”

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”

“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”