Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.