The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.