If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.

The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

In the world of fashion, nothing is ever comfortable.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.