If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.