advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing.In the light.

Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.