Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Reverence is fatal to literature.