I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom