Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Music is only love looking for words.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.