A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.