For there is never any way to go but in.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.