Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.