Nothing short of everything will really do.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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