There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

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

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.