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

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

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.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

The strong are so stupid.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.