Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.