You always become the thing you fight the most.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.