I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

Past art is subject to change.