Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.