Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.