I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.