If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .