That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.