“Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.”
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
“Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever,And do not listen to those critics everWhose crude provincial gullets crave in booksPlain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.”
“No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.”
“Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...”
“Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.”