If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.