Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.