I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.