I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

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