Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!