That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.