Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.