Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

To know Paris is to know a great deal.