The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.