Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.