In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.