The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.