Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything