Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.