To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.