I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded as irrelevant and useless. If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it. My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, 'That's that, where do we go from here?'

Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. I was four years in the orphanage, seven or eight in school, and thr…

In those days, there was something more to the world than there is now. Well, my kids were little, let's put it that way, and of course if you like your kids, …

I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged f…

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.