In a letter to his wife, Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life," and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material."
U pismu svojoj ženi Vivijen rekao je da gaji ,,snažan antagonizam prema običnom, domaćinskom životu" i da je bolest, nažalost, takođe i materijal za pisanje.