Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.