Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

What thou lovest well remains.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.