After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.