So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.