Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.