If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.