Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.