...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The realms of love and light, anything is possible

I hate coming out of conversations without learning anything.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

It's a holy city for music.