We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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?

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

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

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

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

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