The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.