The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.