Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.