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

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

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

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

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.