Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.