We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.