Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.