It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

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

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

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.