he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.