To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

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

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

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

The more stitches, the less riches.