Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.