Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.