Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .