For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.