I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

Words began fights and words ended them.

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.