It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.