Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.