Truth is what most contradicts itself.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds