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

…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

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

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.