The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home. 2.46K
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. 598
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. 559
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up. 601
So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness. 645
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. 605
