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

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

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

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.