Between skin and skin, there is only light.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.