Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.