Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.