The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Humility is attentive patience.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.