To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
God: a gaseous vertebrate.
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.