Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.