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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained,...more

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That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purpose...more

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For I am you and you are I.

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Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-bu...more

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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing...more

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He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delir...more

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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflic...more

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...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

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Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

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There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the res...more

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But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and ...more