The living have never shown me how to live.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.