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.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Sheep with a nasty side.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.