Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

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

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.