Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.