Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.