I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.