"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machines — always buzzing, humming, soaring, diving, and then buried in a bog. And the only way in which I can manage it and make it work is by turning …"

"I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"The older one grows, the more one likes the taste of life."

"The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think."