People always make war when they say they love peace.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.