The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The power of an attitude is amazing

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.