Henry Fielding

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

All nature wears one universal grin.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.