The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

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

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

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