Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person – because as soon as we look in one another’s faces we can see the other point of view.
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.
The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol – brighter than my students at university.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can’t get out of.
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it’s a desire to be possessed.
When we pull back and get, for a moment, the ‘bird’s eye’ view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm’s eye view.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.