Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.