Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

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.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?