“I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.”

“We make our own destiny.”

“I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...”

“The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.”

“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..”

“Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.”

“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”

“If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”