You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of... - Aldous Huxley

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."

"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."

"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."