Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

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.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.