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.
More Quotes by W. H. Auden
Art is born of humiliation.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.