Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

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