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.

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.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.