'The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.'

'The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.'

'The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.'

'The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.'

As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuber…

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.