One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.