I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

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

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.