I'm A Holy Man Minus The Holiness.

Life's Very Difficult And Full Of Surprises. At All Events, I've Got As Far As That. To Be Humble And Kind, To Go Straight Ahead, To Love People Rather Than Pity Them, To Remember The Submerged - Well, One Can't Do All These Things At Once, Worse Luck, Because They're So Contradictory. It's Then That Proportion Comes In - To Live By Proportion. Don't Begin With Proportion. Only Prigs Do That. Let Proportion Come In As A Last Resource, When The Better Things Have Failed.

But Why I Cry Out Against Rubens Is Because He Painted Undressed People Instead Of Naked Ones.

Liking One Person Is An Extra Reason For Liking Another.

At Night, When The Curtains Are Drawn And The Fire Flickers, My Books Attain A Collective Dignity.

But Nothing In India Is Identifiable, The Mere Asking Of A Question Causes It To Disappear Or To Merge In Something Else.