“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”

“A thing of beauty is a boy forever.”

“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”

“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”

“Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.”

“One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.”

“If you’re only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crochety misanthrope convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) Since major discoveries in the borderlines of science are rare, experience will tend to confirm your grumpiness. But every now and then a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you’re too resolutely and uncompromisingly sceptical, you’re going to miss (or resent) the transforming discoveries in science, and either way you will be obstructing understanding and progress. Mere scepticism is not enough.”