If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.