Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.