What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.