I learned three things in Zurich during thewar. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re eithera revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re notyou might as well be an artist as anything else.Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you mightas well be a revolutionary . . . I forget the thirdthing.

[ On James Joyce :] An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to publicnotice to be universally recognized.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It’s the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn’t make any difference so long as it is honored.

For all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

Death is not anything ... death is not ... It's the absence of presence, nothing more ... the endless time of never coming back ... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe — responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You must get everything into proportion.