All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.