But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

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.

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.

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

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.