Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

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.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

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

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.