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

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

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