The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

This joy you feel is life.