Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.