Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.