Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.