There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.