Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

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

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

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.