Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.