Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.