Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

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

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

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