Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.