There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.