All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.