There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Only a fool is not afraid.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.