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!

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.