It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.