Patrick White

“The past is not a place you can go back to. It's a place you can only look back on.”

“Knowledge was not a matter of knowing everything, but of knowing where to find it.”

“There is no limit to the power of loving.”

“If I have not lost my reason, I am on the point of losing it.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“Perhaps truth is not a fixed standard, but a kaleidoscope, which reveals a different pattern with every turn.”

“The worst of failure is the terror of failure.”

“Humility is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.”

“An artist is never poor.”

“When you are young, you are a little selfish, hot-tempered and nobody likes you. When you are old, you are a little selfish, hot-tempered and nobody likes you.”

“A woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.”

“The only reality is the one of the imagination.”

“I have a religious temperament. I am a lapsed Christian. I do not attend church.”

“Every man is an island, and every island is a world.”