I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.