After all, the world is still great.

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.