They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights… — Evelyn Waugh

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.