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

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.