What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.