In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

Now is the age of anxiety.