What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.