I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.