There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.