Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.