I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?