It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.