Christopher and His Kind: A Biography

by Christopher Isherwood

She looked as miserable as Joan of Arc must have looked when she was forced to stop dressing as a man.

The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism.

In the old days I was obsessed with the idea of a high tension!, extreme danger! relationship, which gave off ten-foot sparks and electrocuted everyone in the neighborhood. Now I see that there’s something to be said for decency and a little mutual consideration and pleasantness.

He bought newspapers in a superstitious attempt to appease the god, feeling that the news would get worse if he missed one single edition; but he barely glanced at their headlines before throwing them away.