The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Well, everybody has a history.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.