It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

The so called white races are really pinko-grey.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.