Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken

...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

Being poor is a frame of mind.

I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!