Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

Cruelty is the only sin.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.