“Birine bağırmak, hala bir bağın bulunduğunu gösterir.”

“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”

“I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.”

“You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.”

“Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, rafts that are too distant for him to determine whether they have other humans aboard, but too numerous and too identical for him to presume that they have not.”

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.”

“I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.”