Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.