The darkness declares the glory of light.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.