The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

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

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.