It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.