The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!