I am infinitely strange to myself..

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feel….

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist..

The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of th….

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they wer….

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself..

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end..

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination….

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more..

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem….

I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself tha….

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be….

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice thin….

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society..

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive..

Always we try to put the wild in a cage..

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them..

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope..

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what y….

Time is not a road - it is a room..

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid..