The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.