The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.