The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.