The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.