A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.