I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.