"Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature." |
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. |
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. |
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. |
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. |
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. |
Learn from your dreams what you lack. |
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. |
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. |
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. |
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? |
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. |
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. |
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. |
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. |
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. |
You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at. |
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. |
Now is the age of anxiety. |
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. |