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

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

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.