Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

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

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is, of course, a silly one, but I can give it a silly answer. Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written especially for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover I don’t want anybody else to hear of it. To have a million such readers, unaware of each other’s existence, to be read with passion and never talked about, is the daydream, surely, of every author.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.