For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.