... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.