Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

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.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.