Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Better to separate than never to marry.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.