[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.