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

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.