Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.