Christopher Isherwood
“Fear destroys what it wants to save.”
“You can't put a fence around life.”
“What most people consider virtue, after the age of forty is simply a loss of energy.”
“I don’t believe in belief.”
“To live sanely in London today, as one never could again later, one must be a bit mad.”
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.”
“You can't think yourself out of loneliness—you have to love your way out.”
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”