Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.