Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.