One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.