I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

I don't know how to be anything but myself.