The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most abs… - H. G. Wells

I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedly became natural an ordinary to me. I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.

The effects of the ideas of Roosevelt's ‘new deal’ is most powerful, and in my opinion they are socialist ideas

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.