I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.