Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.