Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

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

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.