Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing