As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.