Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

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?

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.