I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.