Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Happiness is never grand.

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.