So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.