Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity