If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.

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.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.