It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

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.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.