The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.