They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.