Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

April is the cruellest month.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

In my beginning is my end.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.