When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.