When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

It was a dark and stormy night.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.