When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

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

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.