I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.