We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Real worship involves waiting.