In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.