Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

The living moment is everything.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.