Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.