We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

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.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.