We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.