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.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

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