We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.