In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.