They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.