An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Courtesy

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Heaven

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Paradise

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Saints

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Words

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.