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.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.