“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.”

“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

“He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail ...”

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard”

“In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.”

“Literature is language charged with meaning”

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”