One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding