To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

We can't tell our life from our wish

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.