There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.