It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Quote by W H Auden

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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot...

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be...

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man...

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he...

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho...