Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.