The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.