To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.