I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

Fidelity is for phonographs

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.