When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still