It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

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.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

The complex develops out of the simple.

Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.