To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
How difficult it is to be simple.
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.
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.