Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.