I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.
I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.