Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.