Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.