The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

In the mountains, there you feel free.