There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

It is no use lying to one's self.

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.