I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.